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WinTV v8
Quick Install Guide for Windows
Hauppauge Computer Works Inc.
Email: [e-mail]
www.hauppauge.com
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ote: Please disable your anti-virus software during installation of WinTV.
N
ote: An Internet connection is required for activation of the software.
If you have a WinTV v8 CD-ROM, please insert it into a CD-ROM drive on your PC. If the CD
does not autorun, navigate to the CD and run the 'Setup.exe' file.
If you do not have a WinTV v8 CD but have an activation code, download the WinTV v8
application from:
www.hauppauge.com/wintv8
Click the Download tab. Then click the
Download button. Run the downloaded
file.
Click Step 1: Install Drivers.
A blue screen will open and begin
installation of your WinTV drivers. When
this is complete, click on the button
labeled Drivers have been updated
Successfully. Click to exit.
Click Step 2: Install WinTV v8
The setup application will then open and begin
automatically installing the WinTV application
components.
The main applications installed are the WinTV v8
application for TV watching and recording.
If you do not have a WinTV v8 CD-ROM, you will see
a message saying Activation required. Click Enter
Serial Number and then enter your WinTV v8 activation
code.
Once complete, click OK then Exit.
To run the WinTV v8 application, double click on the WinTV icon on your Windows
desk top.
When you run WinTV for the first time, the WinTV Device Setup Wizard appears.
Select the TV source that you are using. On
some model WinTVs, you have multiple
tuners and therefore you can select
multiple sources.
If your TV source is ATSC digital
over-the-air TV
Select Digital ATSC and click Next. In the
ATSC Setup menu, click Next. You will see
the Digital ATSC Scan scanning for digital
over-the-air channels.
The digital TV scanning process will scan
from channels 2 to 51. As TV channels are
found, they will appear in the Channel box.
When complete, click Next / Next and OK.
N
ote: if you do not receive any ATSC
digital TV channels, an antenna sig-
nal booster might be needed. After
adding a signal booster, see below for
instructions on rescanning and the Trou-
bleshooting section for information on
choosing an antenna.
If your TV source is Clear QAM
Digital Cable TV
Clear QAM digital cable TV channels are
those TV channels broadcast on a digital
cable network which are unencrypted (‘free
to view’). If you are using cable TV with clear
QAM programs, chose Digital QAM and
Next.
Encrypted channels are automatically not
selected. The resulting channels in the list
might be both standard and high definition
channels.
Rescanning TV channels
If you want to rescan for TV channels, click the Configuration menu (Gear button in the lower
left corner of WinTV v8).
Then click on the Devices tab. Chose your WinTV device by clicking on it, then click Tuner
setup. Chose the TV format you want to scan, then click Next. Click Next and a new scan will be
started. When the scan is complete, click Next / Next and OK.
Once the WinTV v8 application is open, click the Watch TV button to watch TV .
To see the TV Channel list, click your right mouse button in the TV window to display the
Options menu. Select Find Channel. You will see the channel list.
To display the channel list all the time, while the channel list is displayed, click the Channel list
display always on button.
Options menu
The Options menu is the main menu where you can select channels, turn on close captions,
open the TV Scheduler, show the TV Guide and many other of the most important TV control
functions.
To bring up the Options Menu, click your right mouse button once in the TV window or click
the Options menu button on the WinTV v8 screen
To see the channel list, click on Find channel. You will see the list of channels which have
been scanned. To show the Channel menu as part of the TV window, click the Channel list
always on icon at the top of the channel list.
The channel list will also be displayed if you
just enter any character (a - z) in live TV mode.
To turn on Close captions, click on Subtitle Stream.
To manually schedule a TV recording, or to see which programs have been scheduled, click
on Scheduler.
Step 1: Installing the WinTV v8 application
Step 2: Running WinTV v8 for the first time
Step 3: Using WinTV v8
To turn on the Always on Top
mode, click on Stay On Top.
If you have a WinTV with
multiple tuners (the WinTV-
dualHD, WinTV-quadHD or the
WinTV-HVR-2205), you can enable
Picture-in-Picture. Click Picture in
Picture to see the PIP settings.
Audio Stream: if the current TV
broadcast offers more than one
audio stream / language, you
can select the other stream /
language here.
View Mode: the sub options Normal, No Title and Fullscreen are available. In the
Normal view all control elements and buttons are visible. In the No Title view only the
TV image is shown. In the Fullscreen view the TV image fills the whole screen. You can
also switch between these views by double clicking inside the TV window, or by
pressing <Ctrl> W on the keyboard. Position and size of the application window for
the Normal and No Title views are saved separately.
Stay On Top: if enabled, the WinTV application window will remain in view over any
other application windows, even if it is not selected. To turn on, select "Stay On Top".
To turn off, select this option again.
Teletext: displays teletext pages on top of the TV image, if available.
Watch, Pause and Record TV
WinTV v8 is always recording video to your PC’s hard drive while TV is being displayed. In this
way, you can immediately skip back and replay the TV program you are watching.
Clicking on the Pause button will cause the video to pause, while clicking the Record button will
cause the current TV program to be recorded to hard disk.
Recording your TV shows
If you want to record a TV show you are watching:
- Click the Record button. The recorded file name will popup on the video for a few
seconds as the recording starts.
- When you are finished recording, click the Stop button.
- Click the Playback file button and select the last file recorded to play the video you just
recorded
- To play a video you recorded earlier, click the Playback File button and then move your
mouse and click once on the video you want to play. Click Open and the file will start
playing.
The recorded video file is saved in the directory set in Recordings directory. The default
directory is MyVideos. To change this directory, click the Settings menu button and then the
Capture tab. Every time you record a file, a new file is automatically created. The file will be
formatted as:
(ChannelNumber)_(ChannelName)YearMonthDay_TIme.
For digital TV programs, the quality level recorded is the same as it is transmitted by the TV
station. For example, if the TV station is transmitting a high-definition program, WinTV will record
the program in high-definition.
Playback file menu
Options menu
Program Info
Settings menu
(Configuration)
Snapshot
Record/Pause/Play
controls
Current channel
name and number
Close WinTV
W
inTV source selector
Channel list display
always on
Channel
up/down
Volume adjust
and mute
TV Channel
list
Fast channel
select
numbers
Click your right mouse
button on the live TV win-
dow to see the Options
menu
Options menu
click your right mouse button to view
P
layback menu
Channel list
TV Scheduler
C
lose captions
Always on top
Picture-in-Picture
settings